Chapter 582 — The Gaze of the Four Transcendent Saints

That said, now Shi Jin could make sense of the contents of those few books—so it turned out he'd been studying...

The reason the original owner had worked so hard was, in truth, the hope of one day becoming a Beast Commander—but reality being what it was... an orphan who could barely feed himself, what business did he have talking about raising pet beasts?

With the Shi family's circumstances, becoming a Beast Commander was far too difficult.

But Shi Cen was lucky; a bit of talent and a bit of effort had at least tied his present job to Beast Commanders, and the future still held the possibility of his becoming one.

He had even made extensive preparations, resolved to take out a loan if need be to buy a fine pet-beast cub and become a Beast Commander.

At such a young age, he had already decided to shoulder a pet-beast loan.

Shi Jin's defenses crumbled. Sure enough, it really was rough.

He, who already carried a hefty mortgage and car loan, felt a hundred million percent of empathy—who'd have thought he'd have to take on loans even after transmigrating.

That was getting too far afield. As things stood, Shi Yu was just a lowly hired hand.

And in a little while, tasks would be waiting for him—a 666 work schedule, and Shi Yun was strict.

To be honest, apart from his high school years, it had been a long time since he'd gotten up at six in the morning...

Shi Jin rubbed his head with a pained expression, then walked over to a wall plastered with a work schedule.

This was the weekly task list just issued yesterday; as an intern at the breeding base, his daily tasks were all assigned for him.

Today's tasks were... Shi Qi turned his eyes to the contents below Monday.

Morning: feed the snow wolf pack (solo task)... haul feed (group task)...

Afternoon: record growth data for the green floss worms (group task)...

Hmm...

If his memory served him right... Snow Wolves were pack-dwelling, ferociously savage carnivorous pet beasts, weren't they?

A mission that looked this dangerous... was One-Person serious about doing it alone?

Shi Jin sank into thought.

He had been bitten by a dog as a child, and he had an innate fear of canine creatures. This mission was a bit poisonous for him.

"But it shouldn't be much of a problem..."

Shi Jin suddenly recalled that he possessed the "Telepathy" talent, which allowed him to communicate normally with any creature. It probably wouldn't cause any problems...

The reason he could come here for his internship was not only that his theoretical coursework at school was excellent, but also that he possessed a special beast-taming talent called "Telepathy."

When a human successfully opened a beast-taming space through meditation, it was accompanied by the awakening of a beast-taming talent.

Apart from not yet having contracted an initial pet beast, Shi Jin had already successfully opened his beast-taming space and smoothly awakened his talent.

This was thanks to the nation's efforts to cultivate talent with beast-taming aptitudes: after entering the modern era, the state incorporated the meditation method for opening a beast-taming space into Zhaoye's education, and Shi Jin was one of those detected to have a beast-taming talent during that period.

There were many kinds of beast-taming talents, but they mainly fell into two major categories: enhancement type and special type, with an awakening ratio of roughly nine to one.

Enhancement-type talents, such as Flame Enhancement—a beast tamer possessing such a talent would do best to seek out pet beasts with flame abilities to cultivate.

Because in battle, the beast tamer could use their own beast-taming talent to strengthen the power of their pet beast's flame-type skills.

Compared with enhancement-type talents, special-type talents were extremely complex and followed no pattern; the forms in which different talents manifested their abilities varied enormously.

For example, the special-type talent "Sharing" allowed a beast tamer to share one skill of a contracted pet beast, granting themselves a superhuman ability.

Generally, beast tamers with talents like Sharing had far greater self-preservation ability and combat strength than ordinary beast tamers.

There was also the special talent "Fusion," which allowed a beast tamer to briefly fuse with their pet beast into a new form. Perhaps beast-eared girls really did exist?

As for Jue's Telepathy talent, though it too was special-type, it was rather common—one of the most widespread special-type talents at present.

A beast tamer with the Telepathy talent, once they had mastered the ability, could communicate with any intelligent being without language barriers.

Normally, a beast tamer could only understand the thoughts of pet beasts contracted to themselves, but a beast tamer with the Telepathy talent could communicate somewhat even with other people's pet beasts or wild creatures.

In the history of the beast tamer profession, Telepathy could not directly form combat power, yet its status was unshakable and indispensable.

After all, if one could communicate with other species, a wholly unnecessary great battle could very likely be avoided outright.

In fields such as beast-tamer healthcare workers, teachers, researchers, and keepers, it was basically beast tamers with the Telepathy talent who held the core positions. It was an all-purpose talent.

With such a practical beast-taming talent, by all reasoning, he should get along with wild creatures fairly easily...

At this thought, Shi Jin breathed a sigh of relief.

As for his use of "Telepathy," though Shi Jin could hardly claim to be very proficient, he ought to be not bad either.

He unconsciously tried to use his beast-taming talent, listening in all directions, intending to familiarize himself with the steps in advance lest he botch things later.

But just then, an unexpected change occurred...

As the beast-taming space Shi Jin had opened in his mind domain shuddered, his vision suddenly blurred, and then, in his mind, a black stone codex unexpectedly emerged.

He seemed to... have awakened a second beast-taming talent!